SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demography, Nathan Keyfitz, Peter Turchin
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Focused on animal population in the wild. Population exists through time, can be projected onto the future. After each census projections about future populations are made: geoffrey mcnicoll: The census can identify 3 subsets of the overall population: Social structure is the institutions and population is the base that allows all of these structures to form. Society emerges because of the interdependence of people: the birth of the moralizing gods. Create a narrative about a super being that is always watching us and so if we don"t conform there is a consequence: population issues in the media. Longer lifespan-however greater population then with poor health. Infant mortality-more infant deaths early on (genetic defects) The size and makeup of populations according to diverse criteria. The different processes that bear directly on population composition. The relationship between these static and dynamic elements and the social, economic, and cultural environment in which they exist within (sociology: nathan keyfitz- canadian demographer.
